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Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Pure Religion

I have been somewhat busy helping a sister and her family who just arrived in Chicago from Jeonju, Korea. I remembered when my family first arrived in Chicago and how others helped us. I was glad to be a help. Their situation was quite similar to our situation back in 1977.

I remembered the following verses to praise myself and to teach others more than as a teaching from God. As I consider these verses however, I see that I am short of being "religious" or "pure religion".

James 1:26-27

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.

야고보서 1:26-27

누구든지 스스로 경건하다 ��하며 �기 혀를 재갈 물리지 아니하고 �기 마�� ��면 � 사람� 경건� 헛것�� 하나님 아버지 앞�서 정결하고 �러움� 없는 경건� 곧 고아와 과부를 그 환난중� �보고 � �기를 지켜 세�� 물들지 아니하는 그것�니�

God, help me to think before I talk. Help me to be pure and undefiled before you and to keep myself unspotted from the world. Amen.


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